A strong 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck off the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido early Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said. The quake hit off the west coast of the island, about 170 kilometres (106 miles)

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Belgian prosecutors said Monday they had arrested a high-profile expert on jihadi fighters for allegedly providing one suspected extremist with a false affidavit that he was on a deradicalisation course. Montasser AlDe'emeh runs a centre

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Burundi journalist Esdras Ndikumana, the AFP and Radio France Internationale correspondent who was forced to flee last year, was awarded the 2015 French diplomatic press prize on Monday for his work covering the troubled country.

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Britain on Monday called for an end to all sieges in Syria as a UN aid convoy arrived in the rebel-held town of Madaya to deliver food to starving residents. President Bashar al-Assad's forces have

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The first trucks carrying desperately needed aid entered the besieged Syrian town of Madaya on Monday, where more than two dozen people are reported to have starved to death. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent said

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Britain's proposed new Internet spying laws could threaten key rights if passed unchanged, UN rights experts said Monday, calling for a "comprehensive review" of the draft legislation. The proposed measures, which were unveiled in November,

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Spain's Princess Cristina and her husband went on trial Monday under intense global media scrutiny in a landmark corruption case that has outraged the country and sullied the monarchy's reputation. Cristina, a 50-year-old mother-of-four with

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Russia wants to fight terrorism jointly with the rest of the world, President Vladimir Putin said in an interview published on Monday, while again accusing the West of exacerbating international crises that had contributed to

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A Canadian pastor serving a life sentence in North Korea for subversion said he spends eight hours a day digging holes at a labour camp, while a naturalised American citizen said he is being held

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Former German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder held talks Monday with top officials in Tehran on boosting trade links and Iran's diplomatic crisis with Saudi Arabia. The visit comes ahead of the expected implementation of a nuclear

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